Apartment Hell

I hate looking for apartments. It is such a hassel and nothing is going to be what we want. We like our apartment and non of the bedrooms in the apartments that we have looked at our as big as our bedroom. They all boast lots of closet space, but it's not as much closet space as we have now. We looked back at our records and we think we wont have to move out until August 31st at the earliest. This gives us a little more time to find a place. The problem is that everything around where we live has gotten so expensive. I like living in walking distance of restaurants, the grocery store, and the mall, but I just can't fathom paying almost $2,000 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment. The apartment we saw on Saturday wasn't too bad. We could survive there for about a year. It's not in walking distance to anything but the metro. The apartment is only a little smaller than our apartment now, but the bedroom is a lot smaller. I didn't think it was possible, but the kitchen seems much smaller than our apartment now. The one plus about the apartment is its about $300 cheaper than our apartment now. There are no parking fees or parking passes. We can have guests over with out having to get a guest parking pass and there is tons of parking available. The apartment complex also provides a shuttle bus to the metro in the morning and evening on weekdays, a bus on Friday night to old town Alexandria, and a bus on the weekends to the grocery store. As much as it would be different, it would be nice to be able to save so much money. We plan on buying a house next year so it would nice to save money for that. We'll see what happens. I am now going to turn my attention to looking on Craig's list for condos and apartments people have put online. We'll see what else we can find. Hopefully we can find something we like that's not too expensive before the end of the summer. Other than looking for apartments I'm busy with my class. It doesn't seem too bad though because I have to whole day to read and do work. I actually feel extremely relaxed about it today. We have e-classes on Thursdays, but I have some time to get started on it earlier so that's nice. This class is going to go by so quickly and then my summer will almost be over. I need to make sure I make time to spend with my friends and my family. I also need to make time to clean the apartment. My husband is so tired of my stuff sitting around everywhere. He would be so happy if I cleaned up everything. I hate cleaning, I really do, but I want to do it for him. During the school year and the last 3 semesters I have not have time to do anything. I haven't really even had time to spend with Rod. Now I have time so I really need to make sure I spend time with him and I work on cleaning the apartment up. I also need to think of what to get my husband for our first anniversary and what we should do on our anniversary. Unfortunately I have class on our 1 year anniversary but it's only till 7 so we can go out to dinner. If anyone has any ideas let me know please :) Today I'm going to work on getting my reading done for tomorrow's class. I'm going go sit on the rooftop deck and get some sun while reading. I'll update on more apartment shopping soon.